Word: lincoln
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...reading of presidential history, it seems past Chief Executives such as Lincoln, both Roosevelts and Truman used strong Executive action to save the Union, restore our economy and defeat tyranny abroad...
History's verdict on Johnson's achievements and failures is still uncertain, but the thousands who mourned him last week had no doubt about his remarkable rampaging personality. His friends like to recall how Lyndon, after driving his new Lincoln Continental through a pasture down on the ranch, detected a slight hint of malfunction in the car and seized a telephone in the car to call Henry Ford II with his complaint, "You just aren't building them the way you used to, Henry...
...String Quartet No. 3, Carter goes one step further. In the world premiere last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, the Juilliard Quartet paired off into duos and engaged in a 20-minute adventure in the attraction of opposites. While Duo II (violin and viola) was playing six movements in the strictest of tempos, Duo I (violin and cello) was playing four movements in a very free rubato style. Happily, the two duos not only began but end ed together, proving that being at sixes and fours is not at all like being at sixes and sevens...
What goes wrong with the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater revival is that O'Casey's people are ineluctably Irish, and this cast, with one exception, playacts at being Irish. The exception is Jack MacGowran, who is vastly impressive as Fluther Good, a cocky, reeling indomitable sparrow of a man with wistful repentance on the brain and wet wit on his tongue...
...COLD OUT, and different people coped with the elements as best they could. One group of anonymous bodies huddled together under an American flag. Another group tried to ignore the wind with a game of bridge. Near the steps to the Lincoln Memorial, a group made a bonfire in one of the wire trash-cans,fueling it with leaflets (of which there were many) and fence poets...